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Challenge

Ages 12+

Challenge Programs

The Challenge Program

Many parents question, “How can I homeschool through high school?” or "Am I capable to give the education my child needs?" Our Challenge program outlines the steps many homeschooling parents want to know, like curriculum choices, where to purchase coursework resources, how to develop high school transcripts.

Parents help their student to develop time-management skills and good study habits, assess their student’s work, and assign grades. Students learn by completing weekly coursework and participating in community one day each week. The Challenge Tutor works alongside the parents’ at-home efforts by facilitating weekly conversations and modeling learning. Throughout, Tutors partner with parents to mentor and disciple students to imitate Christ.

Challenge programs meet for fifteen weeks each semester for two semesters so that they can practice the classical tools of learning with six seminars of academic content. At-home and community assignments are described in the Challenge Guide for each program. Students read, research and practice at home and come to community prepared for public speaking, discussion, debate, and experiments. The Challenge Programs have two semesters, both of which have fifteen weeks

How does the Challenge homeschool program stand out from other high-school aged, classical, Christian communities?

. Community time is used by students to practice skills instead of sitting in a lecture.

. Directors help students to see how knowledge glorifies God, cultivating lifelong learners and lovers of His creation.

. Directors serve as a mentor, discipling and encouraging his or her small group of students.

. Directors equip students to discover that all knowledge works together in an indivisible universe rather than a disconnected “multiverse,” helping students make connections between science, math, philosophy, theology, history, literature, and economics.

. Directors guide students from knowledge, to understanding, to wisdom.

. Directors focus on skills rather than subjects.